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Direct Capital

From my earlier post, I’d like to express how much I dislike this company and why. First of all, they weren’t totally honest with me from the beginning. We were told we had to give them a processing fee, which I understand. The processing fee is nonrefundable… even if you don’t get the loan. I [...]

Black Friday in Northwest Arkansas

I ask my wife if she plans on going to some of the sales on Black Friday this year. “What fun would it be to go by myself” she says. “Who said anything about going by yourself”, I tell her boldly! For me, Black Friday has always been me and the kids sleeping in while [...]

Necessary Layoffs?

I’m reading an article in the Arkansas News online addition, and I notice something that most of us would consider a little strange. Let me explain something first. As I’m sure you know, Wal-Mart recently laid off between 700 and 800 employees. The normal logic to this would be for us to assume that Wal-Mart [...]

Walmart Announces Layoffs

You know things are getting pretty bad when Walmart starts to lay off employees.  CEO Mike Duke announced yesterday that Walmart would lay off approximately 700 – 800 employees from the Walmart home office in Bentonville, Arkansas. Walmart has always been a stronghold here in the Northwest Arkansas area and I’m sure it’s one of [...]

Stimulus Package Passes 61-37

So they’ve passed the stimulus package… now what? The Dow took a dive of more than 380 points and the economy still looks as bad today as it did yesterday. In fact, the economy looks worse today then it did 2 months ago. They spent so much time fighting over the amount of the package [...]